Search for "breaking newstoday cleantalkorg2.ru bbc news Read Breaking News Today news today Politics Stock Market breaking newstoday"

NPR Gives a Free Pass to Biblical Literalists

By Peter Laarman

…he best blueprint for God’s kingdom on Earth does not spring from what you read between the lines of the Bible, but what you read in black and white. At this I spilled my coffee on a perfectly good shirt. Rev. Hagler had just pointed to a famous passage in Galatians 3 which points to the inclusive reign of God. Earlier in the piece, Rev. Russell had cited the Great Commandment while mentioning that Jesus had nothing at all to say about what we tod…

Gay, Christian, Pagan, Artist: How Matt Morris Defies the Borders of Spiritual Identity

By Jesse James DeConto

…That is exactly what I’m getting at. For a long time, many Christians have read the Bible as a flat document. To bind it up into this book and suggest that it should be read from start to finish ignores a lot of what the text is. Some of it is poetry. Some of it is law. Some of it is allegory. It’s a lot of different things. The idea of even sitting down and reading it from start to finish is a relatively new way of engaging with the text. In the…

How Religion Shaped American Jewish Masculinity

By Sarah Imhoff

…es, and gender studies scholars—but I also really wanted undergraduates to read it. As a teacher, I’ve often wished that there was better stuff for my students to read to help them understand how different masculinity can be in different places and times. Are you hoping to just inform readers? Entertain them? Piss them off? My main goal was to inform, even to reorient people’s thinking about how American Judaism came to be the way it is. But the b…

Cloud Atlas: This is Some Mystical S*%t

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…films like this. Pulp Fiction, Before the Rain, Magnolia, and Tykwer’s own Run Lola Run play with repetition and simultaneity, inserting tags into the mise-en-scene that provide clues to the interconnections. Sometimes it’s for fun or simple coherence, while other times it is making a deeper point, as it does in Cloud Atlas. Critics of the film have noted that the individual narratives are not compelling unto themselves. Perhaps. But the point is…

Ada Marìa Isasi-Díaz, Mother of Mujerista Theology

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…ic elitism, and the grassroots Latinas who are the center of her theology truly are her intellectual peers. She jokingly told my students that day that she found everyday people much more insightful than the dusty volumes of theological texts many of us read and write. This assertion is visible throughout Ada’s corpus and in her everyday actions, which, as she has taught us, are vital to the theological task. The title of your last published volum…

The Wrong Man: Why Falwell’s Paying for His Indiscretion But Trump Gets a Pass

By Leslie Dorrough Smith

…nationalism that’s been so vital to the popularity of people like Donald Trump, the conservative public doesn’t read Falwell as a vicarious extension of itself in the ways that Trump commands. Plainly spoken, Jerry Falwell, Jr. is not understood by the broader conservative public as a type of national treasure. He doesn’t personally mean enough to conservative Americans to preserve him as an ideological leader, and thus he will go the way of many…

Enlightenment’s Islam: A “Necessary Fiction”

By Rob Goodman

…n worldview. But it can jar our sense of progress just to read their words today. When we read Gibbon’s effort to reimagine a centuries-old enemy of the West—alongside, say, the fact that outgoing Rep. Michele Bachmann raised more than $1 million in 25 days from a Muslim-themed witch-hunt—it’s easy to ask how such openness could curdle into such paranoia. But that would be too simple. It would miss the ways, small and large, in which Gibbon and hi…

Mormons Absorb SCOTUS Prop 8 Ruling

By Joanna Brooks

…members from our stake attend this event,” the message from local leaders read. As initial reactions continue to arrive, today is a thoughtful day for Mormon people. With the support of the U.S. Supreme Court, LGBT families and their allies now take a great step beyond the prejudices of history and the hurt of the Proposition 8 campaign. But for Mormon families and congregations, however, the damage from Proposition 8 remains, and will remain—lar…

Trump with back to camera stands before a frenzied crowd with raised fist.

With ‘Vermin’ Remark Trump Crosses Fully into Nazi Territory

By Robert P. Jones

…iss these comments as typical bluster or with a wave of the hand because “Trump is just being Trump.” Here’s what former President Donald J. Trump—the leading GOP presidential candidate—has said in the last few weeks: ROOT OUT…THE VERMIN. This past weekend, Trump was in New Hampshire, where he delivered a nearly two-hour rambling tirade on Veterans Day. Trump’s closing should send a chill up the spine of every student of history and everyone who c…

Beck’s “Dream”—Our Nightmare

By Julie Ingersoll

…on and his revisionist history; which relies in part of the work of Reconstructionist R.J. Rushdoony. More Barton Revisionist History In his essay “The Founding Fathers and Slavery,” Barton quotes extensively from the writings of the founders and claims that many of them were abolitionists. He maintains that the overwhelming majority of the founders were “sincere Christians” who thought American slavery was “unbiblical,” blamed England for imposin…